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From: rsd@sei.cmu.edu (Richard S D'Ippolito)
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Subject: Re: CS education
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Date: 9 Nov 89 16:55:35 GMT
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In article <9734@june.cs.washington.edu> Peter C. Damron writes:

>I would submit that there is not much more than a quarter or semester
>worth of material about software engineering that is not taught in some
>other CS class.

I find this statement fascinating, especially this discussion to now has
been about computer science, and not software engineering.  Please explain
exactly what you mean, particularly, what "software engineering" material
is to you.

Thanks,


Rich
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